Seth Rollins Says Minor Injury Before WrestleMania 39 Changed His Approach To Fitness

Seth Rollins says his approach to fitness has changed as he’s gotten older, and it was a minor injury before WrestleMania 39 that caused the shift. Rollins battled Logan Paul on night one of the 2023 PLE. He spoke on Men’s Health about how a small miniscus injury leading up to the bout led to his realizing that he should slow down his training a bit.

Rollins is currently out of action with a shoulder injury, and said elsewhere in the interview that he is not sure about a return but hopeful he’ll be back in time for WrestleMania 42. You can see highlights below:

On How He Thinks About Fitness At His Age:

“Well, I just think there was an awakening for me a couple years ago when I just realized I wasn’t 25 anymore. And you know, you could look back on the the decades that you spent kind of just running your body into the ground, and you could say, ‘I wish I hadn’t have done that.’ But I don’t really give a damn about that. I’m glad I did it. You’re only gonna be young once. You’re only gonna have that period of time, one time.

“And so, I always feel like I’m so happy that I just put everything I had into my training during that period of time. Like, I loved it. And you know, when you’re in your twenties and you’re younger, you can do it. You just recover faster, you can train harder. I used to wrestle five days a week. I would train five to six days a week. CrossFit workouts — and I’m not talking just one hour. There’d be two-hour sessions where I’m doing only lifts and a couple of wads and really intense, and I just loved it. And I was sore all the time and I just didn’t care, and I loved it. And I was in great shape and it was fantastic. And then I hit 35, I stopped recovering.”

On When He Realized He Needed To Slow Down:

“What happened was, my training was starting to push into my performance in the ring and my availability. Because I felt like I was starting to like, ‘Oh, that’s bothering my knee. Why am I doing that?’ I’m doing it just because it’s the thing that I’ve always done…

“I want to say it was — WrestleMania 39, I wanna say? It was right before that. I’m going into a match in L.A. against Logan Paul. I don’t even remember what I did, but I felt that I screwed up my meniscus a little bit. Maybe a little micro-tear in the meniscus. And I could feel it and I’m like, ‘What am I doing?’ So I’m having to get a shot in my knee just to get through and I’m like, ‘But why? But why am I doing that?’ Or like, ‘Okay, I’m deadlifting for high reps. Why? What am I trying to prove?’ You know, those days are just behind me.”

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